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Skriven 2006-08-28 16:47:00 av Robert E Starr JR (7674.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: My presidential pick
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"Amy Guskin" <aisling@fjordstone.com> wrote in message 
news:0001HW.C118B75900B94944F0407530@news.verizon.net...
>> This goes all the way back to demonstrations before the invasion that
>> stopped traffic in large cities.  Opposition was fanatical to the point 
>> of
>> insensetivity to the movement of, for example, emergency vehicles.  It 
>> would
>> be interesting, if slightly morbid, to figure out if anybody died or
>> sufferred permanent injury as a result of needing emergency treatment 
>> while
>> leftists were blocking the roads.  <<
>
> And this, my friends, is a classic example of Republican spin.  Here John 
> has
> made the suggestion that "leftists" may have caused the deaths of innocent
> people, ironically, while protesting the deaths of innocent people.  Here
> it's only one person saying it once, but in the Republican playbook, this
> little non-factual talking point would get repeated and repeated and 
> repeated
> by various talking heads on various programs and in print, until it was 
> heard
> so much that it just _seemed_ true after awhile.

Leftist people blocked traffic in US cities multiple times.  That traffic 
included ambulences carrying people in need of hospital attention and other 
first-responders.  If individuals sufferred for a lack of prompt attention 
to an energency, it is on the head of all who participated in those 
blockages because it is a direct result of their actions.  To choose to 
block traffic in the face of possible harm or death to individuals, the 
traffic-blockers would have had to conclude that their message trumped any 
potential harm.

I admit to the use of a prejudicial word, "fanatical" to describe those 
individual who blocked traffic.  I beleive it to be accurate and 
descriptive.  Look at this forum.  We're not as extreme as those people who 
blocked traffic, but we still can't discuss the 2000 election even today 
without getting into a hair-pulling, full-on flaming argument.

That's not because of the rightists on this board.


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Terrorist actions are not provoked by the projection of force but inspired 
by the perception of weakness"

--Dick Cheny, 1/4/2006
                                                                               
                                           
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